Zen Zinderman

Europe's disease is not a disease of America. It is a disease of World War 2. In 1946, after we rescued them from themselves and each other, Europeans crawled out of the rubble they had made of their continent, looked around at their mess, wept for a bit, and then formed the wrong conclusions. They decided that ethnic nations are bad. That patriotism is bad. That supporting your tribe, in preference to random strangers, is bad. They decided that these things had led to the horrors of global war and genocide in Europe itself, and so all vestiges of loyalty to one's own people must be stamped out. Nations were, forever afterward, to be post-ethnic, post-cultural legal and economic units filled with... well, anyone, really. A bunch of people who didn't, in fact shouldn't, share values, goals, morals, customs, or even a common language. Nations were to be mere fiefs, their boundaries determined by which set of political elites controlled them. America, having not been smashed to rubble in WW2, did not share this view. We saw WW2 as an expensive adventure in bailing out Europe, which we spent our treasure and our blood on (including my own grandfather's life, and his chance to ever see his grandson) precisely because we shared cultural and ethical values with the people we were rescuing. But they hate us for it. They see our patriotism as fascism precisely because they see all patriotism as fascism. Psychologists have long understood that humans respond to favors with gratitude only up until those favors become so great that they have no hope of repaying them. At that point, their gratitude turns to resentment. How dare we believe we did them a favor? How dare I believe that my father gave up his father so Europe could be safe, peaceful, and free? Don't we know that, because ${ELABORATE MENTAL GYMNASTICS}, we didn't do them any favors by fighting that war? Don't we know that, because ${ANY PATRIOTISM = HITLER}, our love of our country and favoring of its interests makes us fascist and problematic? Well, no. I don't know that. I don't think any European nation is our ally any more. Certainly, we have shared interests, but how much does that really matter, when they refuse to act in those shared interests, because they have come to believe that acting in your people's interest is bad? They hate us too much to work with us. They resent every ounce of the burden which they are asked to share. Our support has made Europe into a pack of idle welfare recipients, complete with sense of entitlement and self-destructive behavior. But if we didn't defend them... who would? Their native populations have been purged of all patriotism, and who would blame them if they didn't fight for ruling elites that hate them? Their imported third-world barbarians won't fight for them. The very idea is laughable. What's left? And what will make them wake up and think about these questions? Perhaps they need to dig themselves out of the rubble of another war.

The institutional filtering process for experts

New massive censorship regime casually floated

If Ron Paul was President, that pilot would be eating Easter dinner with his family while the Middle East took care of itself.

reminder that a year ago it was accepted wisdom among many conservatives that the Democrat party is FINISHED

I am going to once again *tap the sign because our medical institutions told parents gender transition could prevent suicide and then morally blackmailed them by saying "do you want a trans child or a dead child," even though all the evidence shows exactly the opposite.

Trump was much more in tune with his voters on the campaign trail in 2024. Probably the best campaign ever because he was listening to real people and he knows how to sell what they want. Since he’s been back in DC he has put himself in a similar bubble as his first administration. It’s a positive feedback doom loop that was created by someone who surrounds himself with “yes men.” His advisors are dragging him down just like last time. Disagreement is seen as disloyalty and that isn’t keeping a finger on the pulse of your supporters. The army of social media propagandists that are either on a payroll or just want to feel as if they are important don’t help either. The bubble has created a monster that will hand over the Federal Government to Democrat communists without them even working for it. (Pun intended) I’m not advocating that Democrats are a better alternative, but that’s the direction the country is heading because people think they got the rug pulled from under them and Trump is most likely in the dark.

@LPMisesCaucus @marklevinshow The grate one

@marklevinshow Osama bin Levin

He is your intellectual superior. By far.  You’re a moronic anarchist.  A useful idiot for the Left. No doubt another unfunny comic, too.

@TheQuartering >Be the US >Get the USSR to invade the ME and collapse economically >spend the next 30 years invading the ME, accruing record debts >Do so while having wide open borders against enemies that primarily use asymmetric strategy >"OuR MiLiTaRy iS UnBeAtAbLe!"

Alex, There is NO WAY you are actually running your own account. Not that I support the war but any moron knows Trump has been talking about Iran for YEARS. Literally every US president for the past 20 years has been talking about the threat of Iran. They talked, he acted on it

Cashier: “That’ll be $19.94.” Me: *pulls out a $50 bill* Cashier: “I’m so sorry, but we’ve had a problem with counterfeit bills. Do you have anything smaller?” Me: *pulls out a $25 bill*

This Classic is from 1999

Progressives don't just want local governance of school systems - they want local students to be TRAPPED in those school systems, even when they're failing (like Weare's schools). No one with a product that people actually want would argue this way.

Trump would not have won the primary in 2016 had he run on Mitt Romney’s platform, nor would he have won the 2024 election by running on new wars. It’s silly to claim Trump is MAGA. He rode a cultural wave, only he had the personal will to do so, but the issues matter, too.

One year ago today We had no idea how critical Charlie was

You lying sack of shit. You supported a Trojan Horse Dem bill (S.744 2013) that was designed to give citizenship to 40 million illegals (even waiving the English requirement) as a way to ensure that Dems would win every election until the end of time. govtrack.us/congress/bills…

I’m fully aware that many of you classify anything to the right of Bernie Sanders as “right-wing” and make no further distractions.

I wasn't joking when I said this was essentially a DDOS attack against the criminal justice system. The problem nationwide is so bad that standard means really aren't capable of rectifying it.

Communists: It's not a religion Also Communists: "...the cause of all social woes in the inequality of men, which emerged after the Fall. We have further recognized that the origin of inequality has to be looked for in the development of the right of property."